BRX Pro Tip: Are You Really Ready to Delegate?
Stone Payton: And we are back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, the question of the day, are you really ready to delegate?
Lee Kantor: Yeah, a lot of folks understand the importance of delegating, but sometimes they self-sabotage and they’re really not ready to delegate. So, this is an exercise you can do to see if you really are ready to delegate. Something you can do is just go look at your calendar, or look at your to do list. Gather them up, go back, write down the last 100 different tasks that you did that you put on a calendar, that you put on a to do list. So, write them all down, get 100 of them, then put them into categories. What are the little chunks of tasks that you’re doing yourself over and over again? And then once you’ve done that, find somebody on your team who is the right person to take over some of those categories. And once you do that, remember to only keep the things that you, number one, want to do and things that you are great at, the things that are your superpower, everything else should be delegated to somebody else. If you can do this activity and go through your last 100 tasks and sort them and delegate them to the right people, you keep only the things that kind of align with your superpowers.
Lee Kantor: You’re going to be way more productive and your team is going to be able to take a lot of stuff off your plate. Now, if you do this exercise and you’re like, oh, I’ve got nothing, there’s nothing to delegate, then you’ve got a bigger problem. You have to build a better team. You’ve got to get more people that can do more things because you’re getting bogged down with too many things that really aren’t moving the needle in your business. You should only be doing the things that generate the most ROI and that brings you the most joy. Everything else has to be delegated to somebody else on your team. If you do that now, you have more time to do really the most important things that are moving the needle in your business. And you should do this exercise at least once a year. So go through the last 100 tasks to see if it’s time to delegate more stuff to more people.
